The San Diego Chargers may be facing a challenge tougher than any posed by the Oakland Raiders, as the team's owner attempts to persuade city officials to support paying for half the cost of the new $400 million football stadium.

Construction: Chula Vista Developers Surprised By Demand; Chula Vista has long been known as an affordable market for new homes in comparison to most other parts of San Diego County, but homebuilders are now throwing higher-end homes into the mix.

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Energy: Cutting Off Access to Natural Gas May Have Little Effect; A proposed law blocking Mexican power plants from gaining access to U.S. natural gas will have little effect on business , either for good or ill.

The company's name is right there, big and blue, on the stadium where the Super Bowl is to be played. With the game approaching, the marketing team at San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc. is working to leverage that asset.

Trade: Concern Expressed Over Effects of Conflict in Iraq; With President George Bush and his advisers mulling a potential conflict with Iraq, the impact in 2003 on local companies that do business internationally is still being assessed.